silk scarf studio

i busted my wallet 3 weeks ago, and since then ive just been carrying around a handful of cards and cash. very inconvenient, very slow at checkout. i started this project hoping to create something that looked more like a dried starfish with 4 points (fully unrelated to my wallet), but felting never goes as planned.

i made a book resist for this piece, with 2 triangles sewn down the middle. i ended up really disliking the colors of the felt together, partially because i forgot i wanted to do yellow inside on one of the pages and had to go back on the second layer, partially because the zipper was on teal denim (from a pair of jeans i chopped up).

i also disliked the shape of the piece when i first removed the resist. the corners were much larger and looser than i had intended, and the body did not hold its shape well, so i stitched until i liked it. i ended up dying the entire piece in avocado dye i made for a previous project, with a little ‘wine’ colored rit dye added.

great ideas all around the board. the folding, the asymmetry, the zipper placement and contrast stitch. the middle stages of a felt project always ick me out, so ive been trying to just keep adjusting until i love the project, instead of discarding pieces i feel are imperfect. with the new cohesive color and the stitching i ended up really loving this piece. it looks like an organ or a little cornish hen with no feathers or something equally as strange, and, coincidentally, it was the perfect size to become my new wallet/coin purse.

i think this piece is also the perfect companion to a bag i made last week, ‘chomp’.

everything works out, just give it some time.

august 2025